NAS & Bare Metal Recovery

[Resurgent Church]

I have read and read about NAS and every review in my price range on this site (sub $600). The bare metal recovery discussed on the HP NAS is a feature that I would like to have. So here are my questions.

1. Can bare metal recovery software be added to a NAS that doesn't come pre-installed like the HP MediaVault?
2. If it can be added to a NAS, what are the two best programs I should consider?
3. Are there other NASes under $600 that ship with bare metal recovery software.

Thank you for any help you can provide!

 

[thiggins]

1. Sure, you can add backup software to work with any NAS.

2. I don't have any specific recommendations for applications. I'm sure others will chime in.

3. I don't pay enough attention to the bundled applications to remember. Sorry.

 

[Resurgent Church]

Do the bare metal backup programs usually reside on the individual client computers or on the NAS itself?

 

[thiggins]

They run on the client. The NAS really has nothing to do with it aside from being a place to store the backup images.

 

[Resurgent Church]

Thanks for the guidance! Your answers to my simple questions have really helped. I have decided to purchase a Synology DS-207+ or a QNAP TS-209 Pro. Any significant differentiation between the two?

I am looking to consistently back up three computers over the network and house large audio recording master files. And as you have gathered, having a bare metal backup is quite important to me. I have had three hard drives fail on me over the past seven years. Fortunately, I had backups of the data, but operating system and program reinstallation is no fun.

I have looked at NTI's Backup 5 and Acronis' True Image 11. Any preference from anyone out there?

 

[thiggins]

Thanks for the guidance! Your answers to my simple questions have really helped. I have decided to purchase a Synology DS-207+ or a QNAP TS-209 Pro. Any significant differentiation between the two?

Those are similar products. Synology has a stronger U.S. support and an active user Forum.

 

[Fezmid]

I don't want to hijack the thread, but I have a question along similar lines on backups.

I'm running FreeNAS on a newly built box, and I have SecondCopy 2000 running on my WinXP box. I have a job setup to do a "simple copy" from the WinXP box to the NAS box. Problem is, every time I run it, it copies over EVERYTHING to the NAS box, not just the files that are new/changed.

I used to have a server running OpenBSD with Samba and I never had any problems, so I"m confused since FreeNAS is using Samba. Anyone have any ideas?